Combination-tool.



PATENTED APR. 28, 1908.. I

L. SMITH.

COMBINATION TOOL.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 12, 1902.

N0 MODEL.

IlnrTTnn STATES PATENT FFIQIE...

LOUIS SMITH, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

COivlBlNATlON TOOL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 726,365, dated April28, 1903.

Application filed May 12, 1902. Serial No. 107,000. (No model.) 7

T0 at whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LOUIS SMITH, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of the city of Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combination-Tools;and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part ofthis specification.

This invention relates to a combinationtool, and more particularly tocombined gripping and cutting pliers.

The object of the invention is to provide cheap and simplegripping-pliers of great strength adapted to be readily converted into acutting-tool when so desired.

The invention consists in the matters hereinafter described, and morefully set forth and defined in the appended claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a pair ofgripping-pliers provided with adjustable cutting-blades and showing thesame retracted. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the cutting-blades incutting position. Fig. 3 is an end elevation taken at the hinge orjoint. Fig. is a cross sectional View through the gripping-jaws andcutters, the holding-pins for said cutters being shown in elevation.Fig. 5 isa side elevation showing the removable jaws.

As shown in said drawings, A and A indicate the two arms or levers ofthe grippingpliers, which are united at the extremities in the hinge(indicated as a whole by B) and shaped adjacent thereto to form seatsfor the gripping-jaws a a. Said hinge is constructed, preferably, asfollows: One ofsaid arms or levers-as, for instance, A--is cut awaycentrally, as shown in Fig. 3, to provide the rounded lateral knuckles b1), between which the knuckle Z) on lever A engages. A rivet or pintle(indicated by B) is passed through the joint thus formed, and the endsthereof are closed down and firmly engaged on the knuckles b l). Theinner ends of said levers or the jaws adjacent to the hinge are suitablysizes. Preferably a link C is provided on the outer extremity of one" ofsaid levers and engages over the other arm and acts to hold the jaws ingripping position when once secured. Pivotally secured at e on each ofsaid levers adjacent to the hinged end thereof are cutters D, which areof a length to extend rearwardly a sufficient distance to engagematerial gripped between the jaws. Said cutters or knives are normallyheld in a retracted or inoperative position by means of the pins orset-screws d, which extend therethrough and engage suitable apertures clin the levers, said pins or screws being adapted to be removed to permitthe knives to be swung inwardly upon their pivots e to cause theircutting edges to approach, as in Figs. 2 and 45, when the pins or screws01 may be inserted in the innermost apertures d to lock the knives incutting position.

Obviously many different types of instrn ments may be constructedsubstantially as described with the cutters pivoted as preferred tooperate either adjacent to the hinge or remote therefrom.-

The seat in the inner faces of the lever may be of any desired form, andthe removable jaws ct-a are shaped to fit closely therein and to besecured in place by set-screws, as shown in Fig. 5. Said jaws may be provided in sets having differently-shaped gripping-surfaces, thus enablingone pairof pliers to be used for as many difierent purposes as desired.

Details of construction may be varied. without departing from theprinciples of this in-' vention.

. I claim as my invention 1. A combination-tool comprising coactinglevers complementally shaped at one end to interfit and form a hinge,said levers'adjacent to the hinge thus formed being shaped to providegrippingsurfaces, and adjustable cutters pivoted on the levers andadapted to be adjusted into cutting engagement with the material engagedbetween said lovers.

2. In a combination-tool, the combination with levers shaped to interfitand form a hinge at one end of a knife pivoted on each end adjacent tothe hinge, a set-screw engaging in each lever and acting normally tohold the Q I veaeee knives out of cutting relation and removable Intestimony whereof I have hereunto snbe to permit adjustment of theknives. scribed my name in the presence of two sub- 3. The combinationwith levers hinged at scribing Witnesses. their ends, of recesses in theinner side of LOUIS SMITH. 5 each adjacent to the hinge, removable grip-\Vitnesses:

ping-jaws seated in said recesses, and coact- O. W; HILLS,

ing cutting-blades carried on each lever. ANNA B. HILLS.

